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Meet the Cast
Every story starts from something real: a situation that came up in practice.
Falco
Kree’s oldest friend, and the world is smaller with him in it. Made his fortune, then chose the world over a mansion. Boba tea is his drink of choice.
Kree
Left the corporate grind for a hut on a Thai island. Built a digital nomad life that feels free and runs on iced coffee and no sleep. She makes fast, real friends, and every one of them eventually leaves the island.
Ida
Forty years of this, and nothing surprises her. She is the reason everyone in this cast eventually knows each other.
Faye
Kree’s sister. 183 days a year in New York earning enough to fund the rest of it. Tired of the hassle, not tired enough to stop.
Queenie
American-born, loves to travel. Fell in love and came back home with a husband, Stood beside Van as his career launched them into a very high tax bracket. Lives the "American dream" but there's someplace that she'd rather be.
Van
Queenie’s doting husband and highly compensated software engineer in big tech. They met abroad, then moved to the US when the job offer was too good to pass up. Taxes make him cringe.
Makeda
Ethiopian-American food creator with millions of followers. Moved to her ancestral home to do something real with her platform, and found out how foreign she actually is.
Eleanor
Kree’s friend, still stateside. Wants out badly enough to keep almost starting the business that would get her there.
Sal
Gives you confident advice you didn’t ask for. He is always sure. He is often wrong.
Portrait to come
Burl
Twenty-two years in Army Special Forces, deployed across Latin America on the strength of his Spanish. Retired to paradise in Costa Rica, and found out retirement comes with its own U.S. tax ambushes.
Why we do it this way
Tax law is complicated enough, and we wanted to create something that doesn't feel so cold and impersonal. The characters make it easier to see yourself in a situation before you have to admit you are already in it. They ask the questions you might be afraid to ask. They make the mistakes that are easier to read about when they happen to someone else.
If a situation in one of our posts sounds familiar, that is not a coincidence. It is the point.
The characters are fiction. The tax situations are not.
TaxJet is a U.S. expat tax firm. Nothing on this blog constitutes legal or tax advice for your specific situation. For advice tailored to your circumstances, find your plan at taxjet.co.
Character illustrations by Qianhui Yu








